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marked ★ fonts are available for purchase in our ultimate
Elbsound Text Fonts Package (v1.43):
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19,99 USD you get
450 professional text font files which are often used in musical scores
(=19,99 USD net plus 0.00%/0,00 USD taxes).
Text Font Contents
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1a. Favorite Classic Title Fonts
1b. Favorite Classic Expressive Text Fonts
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2a. Serif Fonts
| Name | Included in Elbsound
Text Fonts Package | Title | Dynamics Expressive & Technique Text |
|---|
|
| STIX Two Text | ★ | | |
| Academico | ★ | | |
| Libre Baskerville | ★ | | |
| Caslon OS | ★ | | |
| Bitstream Vera Serif | | | |
| TeX Gyre Bonum | ★ | | |
| Cardo | ★ | | |
| Centabel Book | | | |
| Libre Caslon Text | ★ | | |
| FreeSerif | ★ | | |
| Alegreya | ★ | | |
| Playfair Display | ★ | | |
| Old Standard TT | ★ | | |
| Old Standard | ★ | | |
| Theano Didot | ★ | | |
| Libre Bodoni | ★ | | |
| Old Standard TT Bold | ★ | | |
| TeX Gyre Schola | ★ | | |
| Edwin | ★ | | |
| Crimson Pro | ★ | | |
| Crimson Text | | | |
| Crimson | ★ | | |
| Vollkorn | ★ | | |
| DejaVu Serif Book | | | |
| DejaVu Serif | | | |
| GFS Didot | ★ | | |
| Fanwood Text | ★ | | |
| Fanwood | ★ | | |
| Gentium Book Basic | ★ | | |
| Gentium Plus | ★ | | |
| Georgia | | | |
| Junicode | ★ | | |
IM FELL THREE
LINE PICA PRO | | | |
IM FELL THREE
LINE PICA | | | |
| Linux Libertine Display | ★ | | |
| Linux Libertine | ★ | | |
| Linux Libertine O | ★ | | |
| Lusitana | ★ | | |
| MZ Buenard | ★ | | |
| MZ Lora | ★ | | |
| Linden Hill | ★ | | |
| Nepomuk | ★ | | |
| Old Music Standard | ★ | | |
| TeX Gyre Pagella | ★ | | |
| PermianSerifTypeface | ★ | | |
| Poly | ★ | | |
| PT Serif | | | |
| MgOpen Cosmetica | | | |
| Sorts Mill Goudy | ★ | | |
| Trykker | ★ | | |
| TeX Gyre Termes | ★ | | |
| Finale Maestro Text | ★ | | |
| Tinos | ★ | | |
| Times New Roman | | | |
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2b. Serif capital letters
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2c. Scanned and/or vintage serif fonts
| Name | Included in Elbsound
Text Fonts Package | Title | Dynamics Expressive & Technique Text |
|---|
|
| Opera-Lyrics-Smooth | | | |
| OldNewspaperTypes | | | |
| Century modern TT | | | |
| EB Garamond 12 | ★ | | |
| EB Garamond | | | |
| Goudy Bookletter 1911 | ★ | | |
| IM FELL French Canon | ★ | | |
| IM FELL Great Primer | ★ | | |
| IM FELL Double Pica | ★ | | |
| EB Garamond 08 | ★ | | |
| IM FELL English | ★ | | |
| IM FELL DW Pica | ★ | | |
| EB Garamond SC 12 | ★ | | |
| IM FELL French Canon SC | ★ | | |
| IM FELL Great Primer SC | ★ | | |
| IM FELL Double Pica SC | ★ | | |
| IM FELL English SC | ★ | | |
| EB Garamond SC 08 | ★ | | |
| IM FELL DW Pica SC | ★ | | |
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3a. Sans Fonts
| Name | Included in Elbsound
Text Fonts Package | Title | Dynamics Expressive & Technique Text |
|---|
|
| Arial | | | |
| Source Sans Pro | ★ | | |
| Bitstream Vera Sans | | | |
| Computer Modern (CMU Bright) | ★ | | |
| DejaVu Sans | | | |
| Alegreya Sans | ★ | | |
| Fira Sans | ★ | | |
| Segoe UI | | | |
| Fontin Sans | | | |
| Roboto | ★ | | |
| FreeSans | ★ | | |
| K1FS | ★ | | |
| MgOpen Moderna | | | |
| Candara | | | |
| Acid | | | |
| MZ Economica | ★ | | |
| Liberation Sans | ★ | | |
| Linux Biolinum O | ★ | | |
| MS Sans Serif | | | |
| MusikTextEuroSans | | | |
| MZ Open Sans | ★ | | |
| Trebuchet MS | | | |
| MZ Voces | ★ | | |
| Verdana | | | |
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3b. Bold Sans Fonts
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4. Handwritten Fonts
| Name | Included in Elbsound
Text Fonts Package | Title | Dynamics Expressive & Technique Text |
|---|
|
| Frontiers Lazy & Sloppy | | | |
| Frontiers Sloppy Handwriting | | | |
| David | | | |
| John | | | |
| Frontiers Nice Handwriting | | | |
| Serge | | | |
| Leonard | | | |
| Kurt | | | |
| j.d. | | | |
| Rock Salt | ★ | | |
| Colors Of Autumn | | | |
| From Skyler PERSONAL USE ONLY | | | |
| MZ Gloria Hallelujah | ★ | | |
| Stya | | | |
| Real Book Title | | | |
| Permanent Marker | ★ | | |
| MZ Chewy | ★ | | |
| LilyJAZZText | | | |
| Finale Jazz Text | ★ | | |
| Finale Broadway Legacy Text | ★ | | |
| MozartJazzText | ★ | | |
| Finale Ash Text | ★ | | |
| Golden Age | | | |
| GoldenAgeText | | | |
| Colorado Book Text | | | |
| Pea Missy with a Marker | | | |
| Marker Felt | | | |
| Finale Jazz Text Lowercase | | | |
| SwingTextEuro | | | |
| MuseJazz Text | ★ | | |
| Thickmarker | | | |
| Rabbit Hole | | | |
| PetalumaScript | ★ | | |
| Kalam | ★ | | |
| Segoe Print | | | |
| MZ Shadows Into Light Two | ★ | | |
| ShadLighLyrics | ★ | | |
| Finale Broadway Text | ★ | | |
| Comic Sans MS | | | |
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6. Script Fonts
| Name | Included in Elbsound
Text Fonts Package | Title | Dynamics Expressive & Technique Text |
|---|
|
| 18th Century Kurrent Text | | | |
| 18th Century Kurrent Start | | | |
| Autograph Lanier HPLHS | | | |
| JaneAusten | | | |
| Magnus | | | |
| Jellyka BeesAntique Handwriting | | | |
| Some Weatz Symbols | | | |
| Some Weatz Swashes | | | |
| Chopin Script | | | |
| Freebooter Script | | | |
Freebooter Script - Alts
(Use together with Freebooter Script) | | | |
| Francisco Lucas LLana | | | |
| Francisco Lucas Briosa | | | |
| MalaTestaCKU | | | |
| MalaTestaN | | | |
| Shipped Goods 1 | | | |
| Shipped Goods 2 | | | |
| Qaskin Black | | | |
| RavaliItalic | | | |
| Quickier | | | |
| Bickham Script Three | | | |
| Bickham Script Two | | | |
| Mr Bedfort | ★ | | |
| Mr Dafoe | ★ | | |
| High Tide Demo | | | |
| VayenthaScriptDemo | | | |
| VTKSColored Soul 3 | | | |
| Lemon Tuesday | ★ | | |
| LemJazz | ★ | | |
| Xtreem Fat Demo | | | |
| WarmShowers | | | |
| festus! | | | |
| Segoe Script | | | |
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7. Common Decorative Title Fonts
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8. Rehearsal Mark Fonts (with Enclosure)
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9. Serif Lyrics fonts
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10. Tuplet Number Fonts
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Here are a few external PDFs that compare text/lyrics fonts:
Comparison of text fonts for lyrics
Comparison of text fonts for dynamics
Comparison of text fonts for Expressive & Technique text (Part 1)
Comparison of text fonts for Expressive & Technique text (Part 2)
More interesting links:
Thread on "Text fonts that music publishers use"
Fonts used in hymnal books
An 'invisible' font (good for spacing issues)
List and images of vintage script fonts
3 podcasts on "Using (Text) Fonts in Sheet Music"
